Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-23

married.
Two school boys named Tevyaw and
Laplant of Montgomery Centre fell to
disputing the other day. Tevyaw struck
Laplant, and the latter drew knife and
stabbed his assailant in the hip, inflicting
bad wound.
Henry McKinnon, "a, of Lawrence,
Mass, freight brakeman on the Central
Vermont road, fell between the cars while
shifting in the railroad yard at St. Adams
Monday afternoon and was so badly man
gled that he died.
In the county court at Newport last
week Judge Veazey sentenced Amos
Stewart to the State prison for one year,
Andrew wilkins for four years, George
F. Fisher to the reform school for five
years-all for larceny.
Suits against the Central Vermont road
for death and injuries by last winters
catastrophe are being filed rapidly at
different points. Six were instituted re-
Gently for amounts varying from five to
| thirty thousand dollars each.
There are many reports in regard to
the severity of the frost last Friday
night. One farmer in Chittenden says
that water froze in pals and on the tin
roof, while the ground froze to the depth
of two inches Rutland Herald.
Bartholomew Rady, 70, laborer EN-
ployed on the sewerage construction at
Bellows Falls, was fatally injured Satur-
day by the caving in of ditch in which
he was at work on Main street. He lived
but four hours after being taken home,
and leaves family.
Miss Caldwell of Washington, whose
generous gift for the foundation of a
Catholic university is said to have been
withdrawn, is living temporarily at Man
chester. She is fine horsewonan. She
gallops over the mountain roads every
day in company with Bishop Spalding of
Illinois.
The Barre Water company, chartered
by the last Legislature, has arranged with
Goodhue & Bernie of Springfield, Mass,
to supply Barre village with water by Ju-
ly l, 1888. On the completion of the
works the town has the option of pur-
chasing them within 60 days, at an adj
vance of 10 per cent. on their cost.
The Oath annual report of the Grand
Lodge of Vermont, F. and A. NJ, just
| ;se, ho I ~
VI. Read, shows the order to be in pros
porous condition throughout this jurisdic-
ton. There are 101 lodges. with mem
bership of S160 in the State. During the
past year 3Sl new members were initiated
and l22 died.
A meeting of the E. & T. Fairbanks
Scale company was held at st. Johnsbury
the other day. The receipts for the year
are 81, 243, 900, and the net profits 81 ,27S,-
900. The company employs 625 men,
uses 2S tons of metal daily, and turns
out 1900 scales week. These directors
were elected: Horace Fairbanks, Henry
F. Fairbanks and Franklin Fairbanks OF
st. Johnsbury; n. S. Brown, j. G. Gard
ner, Charles E. Thayer and R. H. Stearns
of Boston.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Eighth Vermont regiment was held at
White River Junction Friday. A shoot
ing match was the prominent feature OF
the afternoon and in the evening ban
quet and campfire were held. Gen. Ste
phen Thomas, president since the associ.
alton was organized, presided, and Col
Fred f. Smith acted as POSTMASTER
Chapters of the unwritten history of the
regiment were read by Coils. Fred K
Smith and George n. Carpenter. A large
number of comrades responded.
A few weeks since the Baldwin Manu-
featuring company Of Burlington brought
bill in chancery against Baldwin q
Cheney of Winooski, and procured on 1t 6
temporary injunction restraining Baldwin
& Cheney from making or selling refrig'
orators under the name of the " improved
Baldwin Dry Air Refrigerator" the
term a" Baldwin Dry Air Refrigerator
being the well-known name OF the pro
duct of the Baldwin Manufacturing com
pany. The Injunction was granted by
Judge Rowell, and the defendants sought
to have it dissolved. The motion wa:
denied.
The grand jury of the Windham coun
ty court has returned ii indictments
They were against Revelo of Jamaica fol
the shooting of his wife last winter, sup
posed at the time to be insane; George
F. Shanks, editor of the Londonderry
Sitter, for libel of c. III. Davenport of the
Brattleboro Reformer; Charles Day fol
horse-stealing and larceny; Frank w
Stowe of New York for violation of in
surance laws in canvassing for unauthor
lied insurance companies. There were
also indictments in three assault causes